Overview

• The Valencian novelist made his resignation public on October 14 in a letter addressed to the head of the Generalitat.
• He cites an academic and institutional drift that he says has grown increasingly disrespectful of Valencian’s public presence and cultural value.
• Torrent writes that the language should not be relegated to bureaucratic silence or political criteria that distort its central place in collective identity.
• He recalls accepting the award in Alicante on October 8 last year out of respect for culture chief Miquel Nadal and a belief in institutional normality.
• Using a flood metaphor, he says the diploma was swept away and the prize had become “wet paper,” underscoring that the honor has, in his view, lost its worth.